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CommentHansom: Life coach
Whether you鈥檙e an engineer drained of positive life forces, a shadow of your usual shadow ministerial self, or an architect who feels trapped in a never-ending regeneration scheme, I鈥檓 here to help
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint: The interiors group
鈥淒o you watch Little Britain?鈥� Adrian demands as I sit down. 鈥淲ho does he look like? Go on, guess!鈥�
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CommentThey know how to use the sky box
That鈥檚 just one of the benefits of having children. But the struggle to combine work and reproduction is rewarding, exhausting and different for everybody
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H & S Blunders
Last week, in the wake of two letters questioning the appropriateness of our pictures of health and safety blunders, we ran a web poll asking if the series should continue
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CommentEvery city is also a history book
So it鈥檚 a shame that architects have forgotten how to read them, because they speak volumes about their profession. Yes, Robert Adam鈥檚 seven deadly sins has moved on to ignorance 鈥�
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CommentIn banks we trust: Project bank accounts
One reason disputes turn nasty is that the payee suspects that the payer is coming up with spurious excuses not to pay. Luckily, there鈥檚 something we can do about this
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Orders figures continue to point to a rougher road ahead
For those poring over the latest new orders figures released today to find guidance on the future of construction activity I suspect there is something for the optimists, but rather more for the pessimists.It must be said that trying to discern sensible insight from examining the orders figures month by ...
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Growing evidence of double dip collapse for construction
The latest round of trade survey data points to an ugly acceleration in the rate of collapse of workloads.Persistent sightings of green shoots over the late spring and summer now look to have been little more than a mirage.The construction trade survey compiled by the Construction Products Association says the ...
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No laughing matter
For some time I have been uneasy about the direction of your health and safety blunders
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Get over it
What is all the fuss about over these OFT fines (Hays fumes 2 October, page 10)?
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With friends like these 鈥�
Gillian Birkby (16 October, page 50) hits the nail on the head in berating public bodies for their unreasonably onerous appointment terms
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She who laughs first 鈥�
I always find it interesting to read articles about women in construction (23 October, page 36)
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CommentHansom: Epic tales
Construction folk fight the good fight this week; they clash with an A-list celeb, stagger through hurricanes, take on insane safety regs and eat all the pies
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How do I... draft a letter of intent?
In the latest of our series on tackling your own legal affairs, Deborah Primett explains how to draft the ever popular, ever problematic letter of intent
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Legal costs: And you say we won?
As Costain vs Haswell shows, judges are using exact measures to work out who pays how much of the legal costs. The results should give a lot of litigants pause for thought
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CommentContracts: Are you a cavalier or a roundhead?
You can have all the collaboration and co-operation you like in this industry of ours, but fundamentally the Roundheads are right: it鈥檚 all about the contract 鈥�
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CommentWonders & blunders with Chris Johnson
The Thorncrown Chapel in Arizona is worth a special pilgrimage, says Chris Johnson, but a classic example of eighties City architecture should be sent for recycling
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Bingham bites back
The Office of Fair Trading鈥檚 response to my column (23 October, page 30) condemns the OFT